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i saw the film Field of Dreams not so long ago. It's about a guy who works in a cornfield in Nebraska, there are voices in his head telling him to do things that only he can hear and he does them, and he is visited by dead baseball players that only he and his family can see that keep disappearing in and out of the cornfield. This is a relatively positive movie. Yet, how is it that these are a lot of the same themes in Stephen King stories but when the voices and the dead people come, it's not a warming experience? I am sick of celebrity gossip. I feel like that's all that there is here (in my house). It's kinda one of those times where I feel smarter than my mom. I sense at times the feeling may be mutual; her automatic response to divert the occassional political conversation is a quick, "I don't know anything about that." :? It kinda bothers me that celebrities get more attention than other news. Today I watched part of a riveting program called 101 Even Bigger Celebrity Oops! on the station that refuses to acknowledge that anything worthwhile happened before 1980 (maybe), E! Now, this program implicates that there was a show before that without the "Even Bigger." Most of these events were things that happened in the last year, since the last 101 Oopses. Since They had a soundyte on this show from Ashlee Simpson about her lip syncing SNL incident. Not only did she not say anything worthwhile, she didn't say anything coherrent. "Like...like...and you know...like...and like you know..." I almost felt like they put that clip in to make fun of her more. I will admit that listening to comedians make fun of stuff is amusing. However, I can do that with other people, or alone in my blog. Lindsay Lohan has a True Hollywood Story. The bitch is only 19! If she died from a heroin overdose that would be one thing. Her's her Hollywood Story: She got in some Disney movies, became famous by making movies appealing to girls between the ages of 9-14, she's tried singing, she may or may not have gotten a boob job, and, like so many young girls, turned skank as soon as she turned 18. End of story. Amber Frey has a True Hollywood Story. Why? She's not Hollywood. She was just the unfortunate unknowing mistress of man who somehow became a celebrity. I first off predict that had Scott Peterson been either not white or dirt poor that trial wouldn't've gotten the attention it did. Second off, everyone knows who Scott Peterson is, but I'll bet hardly anyone knows who Eric Rudolph, the white-supremisist, Christian terrorist, whose most famous attack amongst several others at abortion clinics and gay bars, was the one on the Atlanta Olympics. Granted, he was finally convicted in April, but that doesn't make the cover of People magazine every week. The other thing I don't like about celebrities, aside from people making me believe I should care about their personal lives somehow, is that the headlines of the many celebrity magazines at the checkout counters look more and more like tabloids; the headlines are so contradictory to one another one never knows what's what. I am dying to talk to someone about the Bush speech last Tuesday. It makes me want to scream. He is still riding the "The Iraq War is because of 9/11" wave. I feel like saying, "Dude, you already got a good portion of the people to vote you back in because they still believed the connection between Iraq-Al Quieda and Iraq and Nukes. You're a lame duck, Stop lying to us already!!" Unless he is trying to conince himself of his own bullshit. "The terrorists who attacked us...hate freedom," Who really "hates freedom"? "Freedom" is a catchphrase people like to use to describe America. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying the freedoms protected by the Constitution are not great and better than most nations. However, saying they hate freedom is like saying "They hate the American Flag." They don't hate the flag the object, or the fabric that is the flag, or the fact that it's the busiest-looking flag. They hate what it symbolizes, America, and they hate what they think we symbolize. To say "they hate freedom" is an over simplification. Ironically, there wasn't terrorism in Iraq until we had to butt in there. "The terrorists who attacked us...despises all dissent" This from the man who said "You are either with us, or with the terrorists. "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism". --Thomas Jefferson. "Their aim is to remake the Middle East in their own grim image of tyranny and oppression by toppling governments..." I honestly do believe that we do not want "tyranny and oppression' on these people. But isn't our aim to remake the Middle East into our image? He more-or-less admits it later on in the speech! "Many terrorists who kill innocent men, women and children on the streets of Baghdad are followers of the same murderous ideology that took the lives of our citizens in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania." What about when soldiers under your ruling killing innocent civilians over there? "Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real." Even the ones of US soldiers torturing Iraqi detainees? Not that he is denying it exists. But he did deny it at Guantamo. "Is the sacrifice worth it? It is worth it." It wasn't worth it when Manifest Destiny reared its ugly head in the name of "Democracy" in Vietnam, was it, Dubya? I say suit up he and Rummy and let's see if the sacrifice is worth it. "They know that as freedom takes root in Iraq, it will inspire millions across the Middle East to claim their liberty as well." This sounds like domino-effect rationing. Again, not sure if Freedom is a metaphor for Americanism, however, if they don't suddenly become enlightened at Iraq's glowing example does that mean we will have to enlighten them too? "Setting an artificial timetable would send the wrong message to the Iraqis, who need to know that America will not leave before the job is done...As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down." You mean that "Mission Accomplished" nonsense was a bunch of shit? (Unless the mission was to knock over a statue). Crap. We're never getting out of there. Wow. I feel a lot better. That wasn't the whole speech. It's good to get that off my chest. I haven't felt this good since the time I was flipping through the channels and I stopped on CSPAN, and Rummy was on justifying torture in Iraq, and I was yelling back at the TV and my mom made me sacrifice the remote. Sandra Day O'Connor has retired. I am very afraid. Current Mood:  I'll bet you thought I would never shut up.What's On: Reno 911! 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